Contents

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp xv-xx

Part I - Experiments in heat transfer

pp 1-2

I.1 - Conduction

pp 3-4

Experiment 1 - Critical radius of insulation

pp 5-8

Experiment 2 - The regelation of ice – the effect of heat conduction

pp 9-15

Experiment 3 - Unsteady heat conduction in a sphere

pp 16-18

Experiment 4 - Heat conduction in materials with nonhomogeneous structure

pp 19-22

Experiment 5 - Measurement of thermal conductivity of solids during chemical reactions

pp 23-32

Experiment 6 - Temperature measurements in a transparent material: Application of the holographic interferometry

pp 33-40

I.2 - Convection

pp 41-42

Experiment 7 - A forced convection heat-transfer experiment

pp 43-48

Experiment 8 - Reynolds analogy for mass transfer

pp 49-53

Experiment 9 - Natural-convection melting of a slab of ice

pp 54-60

Experiment 10 - Forced-convection heat loss from 3D solids

pp 61-65

Experiment 11 - Forced and free convective heat transfer of a laminar flow in a horizontal heated pipe

pp 66-75

Experiment 12 - Measurement of convective heat-transfer coefficients on external surfaces

pp 76-81

Experiment 13 - Measurement of local heat-transfer coefficient on the ice surface around isothermally cooled cylinders arranged in a line

pp 82-87

Experiment 14 - Experiments of unsteady forced convection in ducts with timewise variation of inlet temperature

pp 88-98

Experiment 15 - Measurement of heat and mass transfer from a body in air–water mist flow

pp 99-111

Experiment 16 - Measurement of transient/steady heat-transfer coefficient with simultaneous photography of flow processes from beneath the heater surface

pp 112-124

I.3 - Boiling

pp 125-126

Experiment 17 - Capillary-tube boiling

pp 127-134

Experiment 18 - Two characteristic regions of nucleate pool boiling and corresponding change of hydrodynamic state

pp 135-141

Experiment 19 - The boiling slide

pp 142-146

Experiment 20 - Evaporation and boiling in sessile drops on a heated surface

pp 147-154

I.4 - Mixing, dispersion, and diffusion

pp 155-156

Experiment 21 - Determination of the binary diffusion coefficient in a liquid mixture

pp 157-164